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e-mail: kgh2@uwm.edu
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
American Literature(s) (especially colonial, early national and antebellum literature)
Theories of U.S. Literature
Gender and Literature
Cultural/Historical Theories of Literature
Feminist Theories
Fictional and Non-Fictional Prose
Regional Literature.
Book:
America's Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre (1998).
Articles:
"The Politics of Survival: Sara Parton's Ruth Hall and the Literature of Labor" in Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers 1797-1901 (1995)
"Toward a Cultural Theory of the Antebellum Literary Sketch" in Genre (1990)
"An Assault on the Will: Republican Virtue and the City in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette" in Early American Literature (1989).
